Satire: The Damaging Power of Prayer in Sports

Published: August 9, 2007, 8:06 am

Tags: sports

Now that the wailing and rending of clothes about Barry Bonds' hideous crimes against humanity has finally been allowed to recede slightly, it is time to consider the cottage industry of righteous indignation about the possible modification and augmentation of the human body in the furtherance of personal achievement with a calm and relaxed eye capable of seeing the larger threat in the background. While we rail against the dying of the pure light of the perfect human sporting endeavor we remember falsely from our youth, a greater challenge looms large over every sporting event. Outside powers linger just out of view, changing the outcome of the sports we treasure so deeply. Their unseen hands guide the players to commit acts previously unthinkable, threatening to turn all sports into mere exhibitions of talent without any of the true meaning we desperately need to imbue each game with. Naturally, I speak of God. Or, to be more accurate, all the omnipotent and all-knowing deities we

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